Local sororities and brother groups
 

I was surfing the locals web ring and noticed that all the groups had a brother Fraternity attached to them that seemed to be important.

My questions are:

1. Do most local sororities have this trend?

2. Did many locals come into existance to hang out more formally with a specific fraternity?

We kind of have a brother fraternity. There was a local fraternity that was founded on our campus one year before we were founded and most of our founders were the girlfriends and sisters of the local fraternity. Hope this helps http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

I've noticed that too, James. One school I remember looking at is Hope College where everyone is local and they all have the brother/sister thing. In a way I think it's kind of neat but in another way it might suck if you liked the sorority but hated the fraternity they hung out with.

I think on a lot of smaller campuses, even if everyone is national orgs end up pairing off, unofficially. I know this has been discussed before, but I don't think any nationals recognize "sister" or "brother" fraternities or sororities and somewhat discourage this (Zeta Phi Beta/Phi Beta Sigma notwithstanding). Am I right?

Just because they are kind of our brother fraternity doesn't mean that we do everything with them. A few girls in our sorority don't like some of the guys in that fraternity (ex-boyfriends) but they still come to the events that we do have with them. Actually the guys in fraternities at our school are not very happy with us right now because we like to hang out with fraternities at another school in our town.
I think that it is kind of funny because we used to have 4 sororities (now we only have 3)and 2 fraternities and the sororities were always battling for attention from the 2 fraternities.

I just had to throw this in...there is a local Alpha Theta Chi at Hope College too!!

Phi Chi Epsilon is a local fraternity at UW-Whitewater. We love our Phi Chi's!!! We helped in the founding of their chapter in 1924, 25 years after we were founded. We hang out all the time, and do lots of stuff together. Lot's of Alpha's (my sorority) are married to or date Phi Chi's. They are awesome, they're the 30 older brothers I never had!

seems to be a lot of local fraternities/soro. around wisconsin schools
Phi Sigma Delta here..local to UW-Milwaukee

Yeah, there are a lot of locals in Wisconsin. I think part of that is that Nationals started in and were more popular in the south, out east... and west. Kinda leaving the Midwest, well... to milk cows or form local chapters. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

yeah a lot of Locals and nationals too have brother fraternities , unfortunately we DGP gals don't have a brother fraternity http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/frown.gif
We do a lot of events with a variety of fraternity's though, but none is affliated specificly with us
One and Alwyas Much Sisterly and Greek Love
Delta Gamma Pi MC sorority

I've never really heard of having a "brother" fraternity! Wow! Our sorority tries to do things with every fraternity on campus! We actually had a chat about this a while ago because we started doing things with just one fraternity and we subsequently became known as the "Sig girls".....something we didn't want! We try to affiliate ourselves with every male greek organization on campus (more friends that way too! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif) instead of concentrating on one specific organization!

Is this a normal thing to do on other campuses? Have a brother organization?!

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Here in Toledo there are certain fraternities and sororities that tend to hang out together, but we stay away from being official or anything. We are the only local sorority and there is one other local fraternity, so we tend to do stuff together (they especially help us out since we are just getting started). We like to do things with different fraternities but of course there'll always be our fave ones!
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We do. Our brother frat is Gamma Lamda Sigma. They were founded before us, and now we are tight like glue. All of the sororities that are on our campus, must have soror and a frat. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

Our sorority has two fraternal organizations that are concidered our brother fraternity. Alpha Gamma Rho oor a group known as Farm house I think. I know at WVU Sigma Alpha and Alpha Gamma Rho are linked as Brother/Sister. we only do a few things together. We have a bachellor/ bachellorette auction and some rush events. But lately we have been doing things with Delta Chi...

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Yeah i definitely notice that locals hang on to a specific fraternity and consider them theur brother fraternity. At Marist our local sorority is Kappa Lambda Psi and they consider Zeta Psi their brother fraternity

James: I am local on my campus and we have a brother fraternity. Our brother is a national though, I don't know how this is done on other campuses.

AOX :
we don't hang out with our brothers at all. There was an incident and now we don't even mix with them. This is saddening, but you cannot change your brothers I suppose..Family is forever...hehe